An update: Mr. Stamper's identity was briefly removed from this story because police raised concerns about his safety as a potential witness to the homicides. After speaking with Mr. Stamper, who assured us he is comfortable speaking out about the crime, we have again included his identity.

Thank you all for your input on using race as a suspect description. We are in the process of reviewing our standards on this issue now. We take such decisions very seriously at MLive Media Group and have spent several weeks researching the issue. I apologize because I know many of you would like to hear a more concrete answer now and the delay is frustrating. I ask for your patience and we will update you on how we will approach this issue -- and why -- as soon as possible.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at any time.

Well, I am glad you keep coming back. We had the link featured at the top of the river of stories starting at 11:30. It actually was a different post. We also kept it as a featured story in Opinion for a few hours. Sorry you had trouble finding it -- but I am VERY glad to see you came back.

Don't worry, asuccubus. We will repost the the link in a prominent place on our new homepage tomorrow -- which was designed to make it easier to find the most important news. We hope you like it! It's set to go live at midnight.

Thanks for your comment, Pat. It is true that none of the four named in this article currently live in Genesee County. I'm not proud of that fact. All of us have personal reasons for living where we do. (If you'd like to know my reasons, give me a call.) It is what it is, even though it is far from ideal.

I would also say that I left Traverse City to come work in Flint in 2000. I chose to become a part of this community and I've never regretted it. I don't doubt that you are committed to the community beyond your own block, neighborhood, city, even county. I hope you can give us the same benefit of the doubt.

Shanedr, Part of what we are doing is giving reporters the capability to work outside the office -- so they can be out in the communities we serve. They will be able to turn on their computers, connect to the Internet and report from any corner of the city or Genesee County. I am glad our offices will continue to be located in downtown Flint, but it is so exciting to know we also will be able to report on the community directly from the community. Thanks for asking the question!

Thanks for your comments 427435, energy2 and Soon, asuccubus. There's a lot of good conversation here and I appreciate the comments.

Let me say, though:

First -- This is new company, MLive Media Group, and even our move into the Rowe building reflect an investment in our future. We are changing to ensure we remain strong. We already have achieved a lot of successes and are now committing ourselves to innovating even more to serve our audience better.

Second -- One of the cornerstones of MLive Media Group is to be more involved and more engaged with our readers ... and we just can't do that and be anonymous. I don't know who energy2 is either, but I'm willing to bet it's not the company president.

Thanks Charlevoix and Stikimout for your comments. I understand your questions about accessibility. The move is just a few blocks, but at our current location we are basically surrounded by parking lots. Our new company is located right on Saginaw Street where readers, visitors and even passers-by can more easily just stop by while downtown. We won't be tucked away behind a corner and down two partially closed streets. We'll be right in the middle of all the action in the 500 block. As for how we are empowering reporters, we are excited that this move will also enable us to invest in more and better technology. We will be equipping all reporters with the tools they need to do live reports wherever news happens. And, we will be making improvements to MLive.com ... so stay tuned! And, thanks for reading.

Thanks for your comment gogroup. As the story said, there is already interest from potential buyers in our building and we hope to be able to announce a sale soon. In the meantime, we are glad to be filling what had been vacant space in the Rowe building, right on Saginaw Street in the heart of revitalization efforts downtown. We have also reported on our layoffs and look forward to hiring staff, including some current employees, as we continue to build our new company, MLive Media Group.

Thank you everyone for tuning in. We got flooded with nearly 200 questions/comments during the 40 minutes we had with Rep. Scott today. I know many of you are disappointed your question or questions didn't get used. We tried to pick questions on a variety of topics and hit on major themes that were coming in from multiple questioners. Again, thank you to all who participated.

The Flint Journal and mlive.com are working to offer readers more opportunities to interact directly with newsmakers. Stay tuned!